Special Coverage: IFT10 Annual Meeting + Food Expo

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The Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting + Food Expo took place in Chicago, Ill. from July 17 to 20.Food in Canadawas at the show where more than 1,000 exhibiting companies highlighted or launched myriad products.

If you missed it, here’s a roundup of just a few of the products we saw. Look for more coverage in upcoming enewsletters.And in case you were wondering, next year’s IFT take’s place in New Orleans from June 11-15.

• At the Ocean Nutrition Canada booth, the company announced that it has partnered with GAT Food Essentials to offer a superior microencapsulated emulsion.

The new emulsion offering is a liquid functional food ingredient made up of microencapsulated omega-3 (EPA/DHA) from fish oil.

It’s cream coloured, self-emulsifying and easily miscible in water with taste and smell masked.

The companies say the ONC GAT EPA/DHAshows excellent process and product stability characteristics and sensorial properties and is suitable for many types of food and beverage applications.

The ONC GAT EPA/DHA is stable in food and beverage applications (ambient and chilled) at pH >3.6 and is kosher certified.

Teawolf offers hundreds of different tea products. The company imports tea from around the world to produce extracts, distillates, concentrates, essences, and blends.

Teawolf also has a line of more than 200 botanical formulas, many of which are currently sold as tinctures available for retail sale in Canada under the SpagoMed brand, and numerous offerings for the “healthy aging” category.

The company also announced a new distribution partnership with Premium Ingredients International to expand national distribution of its products.

The company says using Fibersol-2 in snack products increases total soluble fibre.

Fibersol-2 also requires minimal formulation and process adjustments, is heat stable, has no added flavour or taste, is colour neutral, adds minimal viscosity and is compatible in reduced sugar, sugar-free and no sugar added applications.

Fibersol-2 in cereals enhances the dietary fibre content and can be done through the addition of Fibersol-2 into the base cereal or through cereal coatings.

Fibersol-2 in sauces, dressings and dips also enhances the dietary fibre content.

The Discover SP-D comes with ActiVent Technology, which automatically controls vessel pressure; PowerMAX simultaneous cooling technology; and has full pressure and temperature control for each sample.

The Smart Trac II rapid analysis system is geared to moisture/solids, fats and oils.

It partners advanced, high-performance NMR technology with the fast, reliable drying capability of the Smart Turbo Microwave Moisture/Solids Analyzer to create a system that yields fast, accurate results without solvents or calibration.